ABU DHABI / WAM The Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) Youssef Saeed Al Abri, launched the “Mezan” project for the calculation of government services costs through the application of the world’s best costing programmes. “Mezan” allows the application of the best global programmes to calculate costs by providing the latest means of data analysis, reporting, statistics and ...

DUBAI / WAM The Commercial Compliance and Consumer Protection (CCCP) sector in Dubai Economy fined five commercial establishments, including retail stores in various shopping centres and gargour outlets in Warsan 3, for lack of employee commitment to wearing masks. No outlet was ordered to be closed during the inspections. Field inspectors from the CCCP also warned 10 establishments for their ...

Sharjah / WAM The Expo Centre Sharjah is currently hosting the “Expo Electronics Exhibition”, the first event the centre has organised after the gradual return to normal life and the resumption of activities and events in Sharjah. This is in line with the decision of the Sharjah Executive Council to resume the organisation of exhibitions and conferences under the supervision ...

Bloomberg Hitachi Ltd is poised to withdraw from a proposed UK nuclear power plant, according to Japan’s Mainichi newspaper, the latest blow to the troubled project and the nation’s effort to replace its aging atomic fleet. Hitachi’s board was expected to decide to exit the Wylfa nuclear power project in Wales, Mainichi reported, citing an unidentified person. Work was suspended ...

Bloomberg Nigeria is counting on gas-powered vehicles to help it reduce reliance on gasoline and improve its climate credentials while easing the pangs of ending decades of an expensive fuel-subsidy regime. Energy prices have shot up sharply after the government ended subsidies and the country’s labour unions are threatening a general strike on September 28. After a 60% loss of ...

Two unpopular leaders, two powerful backers. Pictures of Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko beaming for the cameras, leaning in eagerly to address an impassive Russian president, evoked another pair 4,000 miles away and months earlier. Against a similar background of street unrest, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam found support from China’s President Xi Jinping last year. It’s not a parallel ...

Is Boeing Co capable of making commercial aircraft at all? It’s worth asking after an excoriating report by a US congressional committee on the circumstances leading up to the fatal crashes of two 737 MAX planes. The accidents were “the horrific culmination of a series of faulty technical assumptions by Boeing’s engineers, a lack of transparency on the part of ...

Whether your company is pushing employees to return to the office, a la JPMorgan, or letting them stay home, a la Google, Deutsche Bank and pretty much everyone else, the question remains: What the heck to do with the kids? The US remains a confusing patchwork of partially open, partially closed schools. Children learning via screen need supervision to help ...

Having failed to complete a huge wall along the US southern border, President Donald Trump’s administration now seems desperate to build one in cyberspace for similar spurious reasons. Whereas the bogeyman four years ago was a supposed influx of drugs and criminals from Mexico, the US announced that Tencent Holdings Ltd’s instant-messaging app WeChat will essentially be shut down in ...

Bloomberg US accident investigators who last year urged broad reforms of aircraft certification after two deadly crashes of Boeing Co’s 737 Max have endorsed fixes for the jet proposed last month by the Federal Aviation Administration. A letter from National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Robert Sumwalt said safety reviews by the regulators and proposed changes to pilot procedures had ...